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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-4/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Tom Montgomery Fate
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Tom Montgomery Fate in celebration of the release of his book The Long Way Home: Detours and Discoveries (Ice Cube Press\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-tom-montgomery-fate/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Ama Codjoe in conversation with Donika Kelly and Evie Shockley
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Ama Codjoe in celebration of the release of her book Bluest Nude (Milkweed Press\, 2022). Ama will be joined in conversation by Donika Kelly and Evie Shockley. \nYou can register for the event on Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FckYI_QkQuqZ6g5uT0t_2w
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-ama-codjoe-in-conversation-with-donika-kelly-and-evie-shockley/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220922T190000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Yiyun Li in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Yiyun Li in celebration of the release of her book The Book of Goose (FSG\, 2022). She will be joined in conversation by Lan Samantha Chang.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-yiyun-li-in-conversation-with-lan-samantha-chang/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220924T110000
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CREATED:20220817T184556Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Black Author’s Panel with Arnold Daniels Jr.\, Donika Kelly\, Stephen Willis\, Gabrielle Williams\, and Eliza David
DESCRIPTION:Black Author’s Panel in conjunction with the Iowa City Soul & Blues Festival. This year’s event will be moderated by Arnold Daniels Jr.\, and feature readings and conversation with Donika Kelly\, Stephen Willis\, Gabrielle Williams\, and Eliza David.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-black-authors-panel-with-arnold-daniels-jr-donika-kelly-stephen-willis-gabrielle-williams-and-eliza-david/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220925T190000
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CREATED:20220817T184647Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ IWP residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-5/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221002T160000
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CREATED:20220817T184804Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-6/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:ANGIE CRUZ
DESCRIPTION:Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor. Her fourth novel\, How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water is forthcoming Fall 2022. Her novel\, Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and chosen as the 2019/2020 Wordup Uptown Reads. It was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize\, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction\, The Aspen Words Literary Prize\, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time\, Newsweek\, People\, Oprah Magazine\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, and Esquire. Cruz is the author of two other novels\, Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee and the recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies including the Lighthouse Fellowship\, Siena Art Institute\, and the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute Fellowship. She’s published shorter works in The Paris Review\, VQR\, Callaloo\, Gulf Coast and other journals. She’s the founder and Editor-in-chief of the award winning literary journal\, Aster(ix) and is currently an Associate Professor at University of Pittsburgh. She divides her time between Pittsburgh\, New York and Turin. \nAngie Cruz is presented in collaboration with the University of Iowa Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/angie-cruz/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:John Koethe
DESCRIPTION:A rich\, meditative new collection of poetry from John Koethe\, the “necessary and great poet” (Hyperallergic). \n“It’s presumptuous\, but if you’re reading this you\nProbably know my usual obsessions and preoccupations:\nThe “world”—both the word and what it stands for—and time\,\nWhich is or isn’t real\, depending on my mood. I’ve always\nHated poems about philosophy\, and I hope I still do\,\nBut since I don’t know what that means anymore\, here I am\,\nMusing on my ends and my beginnings one more time . . .” \nIn Beyond Belief\, John Koethe poses eternal and essential questions about the rhythms of time\, language and literature\, and “the space between attention and belief.” The eleventh book of poetry from America’s philosopher-poet is an intimate\, searching collection that gives life to the mundane and lends words to our most interior and abstract musings. What makes a life real? Words on a page\, the accumulation of moments and memories\, or nothing at all? And what is it worth? Locked inside\, have we lost our future and its promises or are we merely pressed to inhabit our present and ourselves? \nThe award-winning poet invites us into his consideration of our world\, as “an ordinary person sitting on his balcony on a summer afternoon\, / Waiting patiently for someone to explain it to and meanwhile / Living quietly in his imagination\, imagining the afterlife.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/john-koethe/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T130000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer L. Knox
DESCRIPTION:The poems in Jennifer Knox’s darkly imaginative collection\, Crushing It\, unearth epiphanies in an unbounded landscape of forms\, voices and subjects―from history to true crime to epidemiology―while exploring our tenuous connections and disconnections. From Merle Haggard lifting his head from a pile of cocaine to absurdist romps through an apocalypse where mushrooms learn to sing\, this versatile collection is brimming with dark humor and bright surprise. Alongside Knox’s distinctive surrealism\, Crushing It also reveals autobiography in poems about love\, family\, and adult ADHD\, and Knox’s empathetic depictions of the ego’s need to assert its precious\, singular “I” suggest that a self distinct from the hive\, the herd\, the flock\, is an illusion. With clear-eyed spirit\, Crushing It swallows all the world\, and then some.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jennifer-l-knox/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T143000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth McCracken
DESCRIPTION:Ten months after her mother’s death\, the narrator of The Hero of This Book takes a trip to London. The city was a favorite of her mother’s\, and as the narrator wanders the streets\, she finds herself reflecting on her mother’s life and their relationship. Thoughts of the past meld with questions of the future: Back in New England\, the family home is now up for sale\, its considerable contents already winnowed. \nThe woman\, a writer\, recalls all that made her complicated mother extraordinary—her brilliant wit\, her generosity\, her unbelievable obstinacy\, her sheer will in seizing life despite physical difficulties—and finds herself wondering how her mother had endured. Even though she wants to respect her mother’s nearly pathological sense of privacy\, the woman must come to terms with whether making a chronicle of this remarkable life constitutes an act of love or betrayal. \nThe Hero of This Book  is a searing examination of grief and renewal\, and of a deeply felt relationship between a child and her parents. What begins as a question of filial devotion ultimately becomes a lesson in what it means to write. At once comic and heartbreaking\, with prose that delights at every turn\, this is a novel of such piercing love and tenderness that we are reminded that art is what remains when all else falls away.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/elizabeth-mccracken/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221008T160000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Weiss
DESCRIPTION:All Harriet Szász has ever known is life onstage with her sister\, Josie. As “The Sisters Sweet\,” they pose as conjoined twins in a vaudeville act conceived of by their ambitious parents\, who were once themselves theatrical stars. But after Josie exposes the family’s fraud and runs away to Hollywood\, Harriet must learn to live out of the spotlight—and her sister’s shadow. As Josie’s star rises in California\, the Szászes fall on hard times. Striving to keep her struggling family afloat\, Harriet molds herself into the perfect daughter. She also tentatively forms her first relationships outside her family and begins to imagine a life for herself beyond the role of dutiful daughter that she has played for so long. Finally\, Harriet must decide whether to honor her mother\, her father\, or the self she’s only beginning to get to know. \nFull of long-simmering tensions\, buried secrets\, questionable saviors\, and broken promises\, this is a story about how much we are beholden to others and what we owe ourselves. Layered and intimate\, The Sisters Sweet heralds the arrival of an accomplished new voice in fiction.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/elizabeth-weiss/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221009T160000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-7/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221014T190000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: All Iowa Reads: Rachel Mans McKenny
DESCRIPTION:Established in 2003\, the purpose of All Iowa Reads is to foster a sense of unity through reading. Iowans are encouraged to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same calendar year. The 2022 All Reads selection is Rachel Mans McKenny‘s The Butterfly Effect.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-all-iowa-reads-rachel-mans-mckenny/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221016T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221016T160000
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CREATED:20220817T185049Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-8/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221017T190000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Rebecca Rukeyser in conversation with Rachel Yoder
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Rebecca Rukeyser in celebration of the release of her book The Seaplane on Final Approach. She will be joined in conversation by Rachel Yoder.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-rebecca-rukeyser-in-conversation-with-rachel-yoder/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221022T140000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Margo Price
DESCRIPTION:Country singer Margo Price will read from and talk about her new memoir\, Maybe We’ll Make It.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-margo-price/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221023T160000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221109T190000
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SUMMARY:LAUREN HALDEMAN AND KAVEH AKBAR
DESCRIPTION:Please join with Lauren Haldeman who will talk about and show images from her book Team Photograph. She will be joined in conversation by Kaveh Akbar. In her extraordinary graphic novel–which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir–Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park\, where\, growing up\, her soccer team would practice and compete. The narrator turns to poetry and history to make sense of the town and its bloodshed\, of its forever attachment to injustice and its inability to restore erased identities. \nLauren Haldeman is the author of the graphic novel Team Photograph\, and the collections Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry)\, Calenday\, and The Eccentricity is Zero. Her work has appeared in Poetry\, Tin House\, The Colorado Review\, The Iowa Review\, Fence and others. A graphic novelist and poet\, she’s received an Iowa Arts Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award and visiting fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Carnegie Mellon University\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design\, and University of Cape Town. \nKaveh Akbar is the author of the poetry collections: Pilgrim Bell and Calling a Wolf a Wolf\, the chapbook Portrait of the Alcoholic\, and he is the editor of The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse: 100 Poets on the Divine. In 2020 Kaveh was named Poetry Editor of The Nation. His honors include multiple Pushcart Prizes\, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship\, and the Levis Reading Prize. He teaches at the University of Iowa and in the low-residency MFA programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/lauren-haldeman-and-kaveh-akbar/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221113T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221113T140000
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CREATED:20221104T162424Z
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SUMMARY:RAINBOW ROWELL
DESCRIPTION:Join Prairie Lights Books for a reading and signing with New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell!   Seating is limited\, so if you pre-pay a pre-order a copy of her new book\, Scattered Showers\, we will be happy to save you a seat! \nRowell’s new book\, Scattered Showers (YA ages 14- 17)\, contains nine beautifully crafted love stories. Girl meets boy camping outside a movie theater. Best friends debate the merits of high school dances. A prince romances a troll. A girl romances an imaginary boy. And Simon Snow himself returns for a holiday adventure. It’s a feast of irresistible characters\, hilarious dialogue\, and masterful storytelling—in short\, everything you’d expect from a Rainbow Rowell book! \nRainbow Rowell lives in Omaha\, Nebraska\, with her family. She’s the author of Eleanor & Park\,  Fangirl\,  Attachments\,  Landline\,  Pumpkinheads\, and the Simon Snow trilogy. \nPlease place pre-orders prior to Nov 11th. Books can be ordered here\, or you may call (319)337-2681(during store hours). Rowell will be happy to sign one book from home with any purchased for/at the event from Prairie Lights. \nMasks required!
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/rainbow-rowell/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231010T190000
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SUMMARY:Sarah Cypher: The Skin and Its Girl
DESCRIPTION:A young\, queer Palestinian American woman pieces together her great aunt’s secrets in this sweeping debut\, a family saga confronting questions of sexual identity\, exile\, and lineage. \nIn a Pacific Northwest hospital far from the Rummani family’s ancestral home in Palestine\, the heart of a stillborn baby begins to beat and her skin turns a vibrant\, permanent cobalt blue. On the same day\, the Rummanis’ centuries-old soap factory in Nablus is destroyed in an air strike. The family matriarch and keeper of all Rummani lore\, Aunt Nuha\, believes that the blue girl embodies their sacred history\, harkening to a time when the Rummanis were among the wealthiest soap-makers and their blue soap was a symbol of a legendary love. \nDecades later\, Betty returns to her Aunt Nuha’s gravestone\, faced with a difficult decision: Should she stay in the only country she’s every known or should she follow her heart for the woman she loves\, perpetuating her family’s cycle of exile? Betty finds her answer in partially translated notebooks that reveal her aunt’s complex life and struggle with her own sexuality\, which Nuha hid to help the family emigrate to the U.S. But as Betty soon discovers\, her aunt hid much more than that. \nThe Skin and Its Girl is a searing\, poetic tale about desire and identity and a provocative exploration of how we let stories divide\, unite\, and define us–and even wield the power to restore a broken family. Sarah Cypher is that rare debut novelist who writes with the mastery and flair of a seasoned storyteller.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/sarah-cypher-the-skin-and-its-girl/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231011T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20230824T144307Z
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SUMMARY:Tracie Morris: human/nature poems
DESCRIPTION:Weaving intimate portraits of home with what could be the travel journals of a 21st-century troubadour\, Tracie Morris’s human/nature poems is a hymn to the human and more-than-human world. These poems bear the record of a state of heightened perception\, springing from the displacements of travel and returning\, of memory and its triggers\, of global pandemics\, ecological catastrophe\, political unrest\, and mourning. With great precision and abundant insight\, Morris articulates the seam of our “human/nature”: “Sol has hands in Cairo\, in Luxor / today He Rises. I wonder where / the outstretch lands. It matters knot / what circles your head. What your / kin says is power. Aspects of ever / lasting light\, life is always made from parting.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/tracie-morris-human-nature-poems/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T113000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20230915T172627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T172627Z
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SUMMARY:Daniel Kraus: Whalefall
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Kraus is a New York Times bestselling author. His collaboration with legendary filmmaker George A. Romero\, The Living Dead\, was acclaimed by The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Iowa native will discuss his new novel\, Whalefall. 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/daniel-kraus-whalefall/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T130000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20230915T172956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230915T172956Z
UID:3189-1697288400-1697288400@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Eskor David Johnson: Pay As You Go
DESCRIPTION:Eskor David Johnson is a writer from Trinidad and Tobago and the United States. His writing has appeared in BOMB Magazine\, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. A graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he currently lives in New York City. Pay As You Go is his debut novel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/eskor-david-johnson-pay-as-you-go/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T143000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20230915T173123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230919T175422Z
UID:3191-1697293800-1697293800@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Mindy Mejia: To Catch a Storm
DESCRIPTION:Mindy Mejia is a CPA and a graduate of the Hamline University MFA program. Her debut novel\, The Dragon Keeper\, was published by Ashland Creek Press in 2012. She lives in the Twin Cities with her family\, and is the author of Strike Me Down\, Everything You Want Me to Be\, and Leave No Trace. Her latest mystery novel is To Catch a Storm.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/mindy-mejia-to-catch-a-storm/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20230912T211928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231006T170204Z
UID:3111-1697299200-1697299200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Ayana Mathis: The Unsettled
DESCRIPTION:Ayana Mathis with special guest moderator Lan Samantha Chang. \nFrom the moment Ava Carson and her ten-year-old son\, Toussaint\, arrive at the Glenn Avenue family shelter in Philadelphia 1985\, Ava is already plotting a way out. She is repulsed by the shelter’s squalid conditions: the barely edible food\, and the shifty night security guard. She is determined to rescue her son from the perils and indignities of that place\, and to save herself from the complicated past that led them there. Ava has been estranged from her own mother\, Dutchess\, since she left her Alabama home as a young woman barely out of her teens. Despite their estrangement and the thousand miles between them\, mother and daughter are deeply entwined\, but Ava can’t forgive her sharp-tounged\, larger than life mother whose intractability and bouts of debilitating despair brought young Ava to the outer reaches of neglect and hunger. Ava wants to love her son differently\, better. But when Toussaint’s father\, Cass\, reappears\, she is swept off course by his charisma\, and the intoxicating power of his radical vision to destroy systems of racial injustice and bring about a bold new way of communal living. \nMeanwhile\, in Alabama\, Dutchess struggles to keep Bonaparte\, once a beacon of Black freedom and self-determination\, in the hands of its last five Black residents—families whose lives have been rooted in this stretch of land for generations—and away from rapidly encroaching white developers. She fights against the erasure of Bonaparte’s venerable history and the loss of the land itself\, which she has so arduously preserved as Ava’s inheritance. \nAs Ava becomes more enmeshed with Cass\, Toussaint senses the danger simmering all around him—his well-intentioned but erratic mother; the intense\, volatile figure of his father who drives his fledgling Philadelphia community toward ever increasing violence and instability. He begins to dream of Dutchess and Bonaparte\, his home and birthright\, if only he can find his way there.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ayana-mathis-the-unsettled/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231015T140000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20230802T171328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230913T163820Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Lethem\, Brooklyn Crime Novel
DESCRIPTION:“The levels of mystery here astound. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts and then the parts decide to act alone and challenge the whole. Lethem is not only interrogating the form of the crime novel\, but the venture of storytelling itself. All of this while remaining a joy to read. Full of strange characters and expertly rendered place. This brilliant\, genre-defying work will certainly leave a mark.”\n—PERCIVAL EVERETT \nOn the streets of 1970s Brooklyn\, a daily ritual goes down: the dance. Money is exchanged\, belongings surrendered\, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere\, a currency itself. For these children\, Black\, brown\, and white\, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other players: parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines\, the histories\, and the laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. \nThe rules appear obvious at first. But in memory’s prism\, criminals and victims may seem to trade places. The voices of the past may seem to rise and gather as if in harmony\, then make war with one another. A street may seem to crack open and reveal what lies behind its glimmering facade. None who lived through it are ever permitted to forget. \nWritten with kaleidoscopic verve and delirious wit\, Brooklyn Crime Novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a writer at the top of his powers. Jonathan Lethem\, “one of America’s greatest storytellers” (Washington Post)\, has crafted an epic interrogation of how we fashion stories to contain the uncontainable: our remorse at the world we’ve made.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jonathan-lethem-reading-brooklyn-crime-novel/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241014T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241014T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20240812T174125Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T161610Z
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SUMMARY:Stuart Dybek
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots\, Paper Lantern\, I Sailed with Magellan\, The Coast of Chicago\, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods–as well as two collections of poetry\, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their Own Ink. Dybek is the recipient of many prizes and awards\, including the PEN/Malamud Award\, an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, four O. Henry Awards\, a MacArthur Fellowship\, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is distinguished writer-in-residence at Northwestern University. \nPresented in partnership with the University of Iowa Center for Advancement
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/stuart-dybek/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T180000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20240731T154151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240731T154151Z
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SUMMARY:Bruna Dantas Lobato – Blue Light Hours
DESCRIPTION:BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, Guernica\, A Public Space\, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal\, Brazil\, and lives in St. Louis\, Missouri. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/bruna-dantas-lobato-blue-light-hours/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241016T190000
DTSTAMP:20260629T162021
CREATED:20240724T161721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240918T202623Z
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SUMMARY:Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz – The Indian Card
DESCRIPTION:To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has exploded—increasing 85 percent in just ten years—the number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty\, being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether. Over two million Native people are tribally enrolled\, yet there are Native people who will never be. Native people who\, for a variety of reasons ranging from displacement to disconnection\, cannot be card-carrying members of their Tribe. \nIn The Indian Card\, Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz grapples with these contradictions. Through in-depth interviews\, she shares the stories of people caught in the mire of identity-formation\, trying to define themselves outside of bureaucratic processes. With archival research\, she pieces together the history of blood quantum and tribal rolls and federal government intrusion on Native identity-making. Reckoning with her own identity—the story of her enrollment and the enrollment of her children—she investigates the cultural\, racial\, and political dynamics of today’s Tribal identity policing. With this intimate perspective of the ongoing fight for Native sovereignty\, The Indian Card sheds light on what it looks like to find a deeper sense of belonging. \nFor this special Iowa City Book Festival event\, Schuettpelz will be joined in conversation by Harry Smith. Smith is a well-known broadcast journalist who had a long career with CBS and NBC News. After retiring earlier this year\, Smith returned to teach at his alma mater\, Central College in Pella.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/carrie-lowry-schuettpelz-the-indian-card/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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